Governance

Learn how to balance the positive and negative effects of memory utilization in virtual infrastructures to better handle system workload and priority--while improving server utilization

Offshoring Is a Cost Effective Solution to Your IT Needs

New technologies emerge every day, but not all of them pay off, and adopting them too early might be risky for your organization.

Millions of Google Apps users may be in violation of legal and organizational compliance standards. Learn how to avoid it.

Ultra High Speed Internet, TV and local/long distance phone services combined into 1 superior service.

Painfully aware of the devastating impact that downtime can have on their bottom line, most businesses appreciate the wisdom of deploying first­ rate uninterruptible power supplies (UPSs). Yet they often invest far more time and energy in deciding which UPS to buy than in selecting an accompanying service plan.

Data centers are an ever-growing part of our economy. The IT community is experiencing constantly increasing demands in areas such as Internet media and video, banking and finance, research, and government, just to name a few.

Much has been written and discussed about Enterprise Risk Management (ERM) as it relates to compliance, corporate governance, financial controls and the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 (SOX). Until now, there was very little available to the risk manager on how to apply ERM to day-to-day operations.

In business, no two challenges are the same. To be effective now and in the future, organizations must be able to adapt with speed and agility. Read this white paper to learn how enterprise mashups can help you use existing IT assets and projects to solve situational problems and take advantage of business opportunities.

The e-book provides a concise and consistent overview of the IBM to approach to SOA: our methods, architectures, and products for being successful with SOA. It compiles together various SOA materials in one place and gives it a consistent narrative that ties all of the pieces together. Download it now to get an informative overview of the IBM approach to SOA.

Good governance of a service-oriented architecture is becoming a core competency. This Magic Quadrant report by Gartner examines the market for SOA governance through a set of integrated technologies. It evaluates leaders, challengers and innovators in the SOA governance technology market, providing feature information and strengths and cautions for each.

A world class IT organization needs to be better than even the regulators require – and good IT governance doesn't have to tie the IT department up in red tape. Judicious application of IT best practices, frameworks and methodologies can help achieve this, based on an accurate picture of the IT environment, at which point regulatory compliance becomes a happy side effect. Find out how you can have an up-to-date true view of your infrastructure on a daily basis – not just at a point in time by reading this white paper.

Learn why organizations need to limit IT administrator power to ensure operational integrity and assure compliance and how to implement robust change control processes and tools with this white paper.

Master Data Management (MDM) has made the CIO's technology short-list.  This paper addresses issues related to data governance, the business master, building on proven success, and ROI.  

With Grid computing, computer systems and other resources aren’t necessarily constrained to be dedicated to individual users or applications, but can be made available for dynamic pooling or sharing to meet the changing needs of the organization.

This white paper is a must read for those involved in the process of log management for legal use. You'll examine the admissibility of log data in court cases; maintaining the authenticity of log data; and how log data can be attacked and stand up to scrutiny. And, learn legal terms like Hearsay, Best Evident Rules, etc.

Automating repetitive Data Center Operations into best practices makes response times faster, more reliable, and less costly. Learn how to extend your current IT systems to do more of the routine work, freeing up IT staff for higher-value projects.